Warfarin

[lennox]

Help bit of a problem on Friday my inr was 8.8 and today it's saying 1.6 and have to take 8mg and claxten injection the only prob I have I heard the nurse say to the other one I'm sure my machine is messing about so I'm so worried don't know weather to take the claxten or just the tablets, what does claxten do beside wafrin

[daisyd]

Clexane also thins the blood but works in a different way, people with a low IINR. have this to cover them until the INR improves.

I would phone your Gp or anticoagulant clinic to check,

what dose did you take over the weekend.

i take it that you have a coagucheck machine to test your own blood perhaps it is time you have a blood test at the anticoagulant clinic. And take your own blood test to at the same time as your machine

I would also read the Hughes syndrome web site on here,

It has routine work on it this am so will be closed after 9am or the anticoagulant site. also on here

Hope this makes sense, I have Hughes syndrome, it make me have brain fog.

Hope you get it sorted.

Warfarin takes about 3 days to get into your system, so that is probably why they have covered you with Clexane,

Hope you get the answers to reassure you

[lennox]

Thank u silly I have been on wafrin for 13 years now and not really had a problem but for some reason for the life of me I couldn't remember what claxten done, and I used to have my own machine until they stopped making strips for my machine, so now need to buy a new one, but the reason I felt the way I did was hearing the nurse say she was sure her machine was messing about, after going from 8.8 down to 1.6 it just worried me but thanks for ur help x

[Suejane]

I was told by Beverley Hunt at St Thomass' that the Coagucheck machine is not reliable in about a third of people with APS. For that reason I have not invested in one myself as they are quite expensive to buy.